The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 99
Nur Mahomed, who was the nearest of the guards, threw himself in the way, and received the stab that had been apparently intended for the king.
Who acts: Nur · What happens: be, throw, receive, intend · To what, where: Nur, way, stab
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nur), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nur | Nur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 threw | nsubj |
| 2 | Mahomed | Mahomed | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Nur | flat |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 nearest | punct |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 nearest | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 nearest | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 nearest | det |
| 7 | nearest | near | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 1 Nur | appos |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 guards | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 guards | det |
| 10 | guards | guard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 nearest | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nur | punct |
| 12 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 threw | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 way | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 way | det |
| 16 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 threw | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 received | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 received | cc |
| 19 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 threw | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 stab | det |
| 21 | stab | stab | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 received | obj |
| 22 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 intended | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 intended | aux |
| 24 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 26 intended | aux:pass |
| 25 | apparently | apparently | ADV | _ | 26 intended | advmod |
| 26 | intended | intend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 stab | acl:relcl |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 king | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 king | det |
| 29 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 intended | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 threw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Nur | of the guards; near property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | throw | past | Nur | Nur | the way | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent himself=Theme in way=Destination | |||
| 3 | receive | past | Nur not said here | the stab | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stab=Theme | ||||
| 4 | intend | past · perfect · passive | the stab | for the king; apparently property | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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